Be Mobile to Keep Up with the Whitetail Rut

The rut — a magical time every bowhunter thinks about, talks about and dreams about the entire year! It’s when many of us use our hard-earned vacation days, hoping to capitalize on a brutish old buck with heavy antlers and a swelled neck as he trots past our perch in pursuit of an estrous doe.

Many times, however, the reality of the rut simply doesn’t match our expectations, and we are left stuck in a “rut” of our own. After all, we are supposed to be hunting animals that are out of their minds with testosterone, running frantically all over creation in a desperate search for the next receptive mate. Given that, why do we sooften find ourselves in the...